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The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, met with Ibikunle Amosun at the Senate on Tuesday, but did not take the embattled former governor in for questioning. Mr Amosun has come under public backlash and a growing chorus for his arrest after PREMIUM TIMES revealed how he handed over a large cache of weapons to Ogun State police commissioner, Bashir Makama. The handover occurred …

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, fixed July 1, to hear a fresh application the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, filed to quash the proceeding it held on June 11. Specifically, Atiku and his party are praying the tribunal to review the proceeding of that date, pertaining to a motion the All …

The British actor was famous for playing Commander Talbot in the 007 movie, The Spy Who Loved Me, as well as Australian daytime soap Neighbours. Bryan Marshall, best known for his role in James Bond, has died at the age of 81. Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/06/breaking-james-bond-actor-bryan-marshall-is-dead/ Confirming the sad news, Marshall’s agent Esta Charkham from ECA tweeted on Wednesday: ‘So …

For nearly two years, Chris Chom and 61 other inmates shared a filthy cell in the Kaduna State Central Prisons. According to the 34-year-old, the cell had only three beds, so the inmates slept in a pile on the bare floor at night and yearned for the day they would see the priceless light of freedom. Mr Chom spoke with …

Nigerians on social media amplified their anger after PREMIUM TIMES revealedhow former governor, Ibikunle Amosun, stockpiled arms and ammunition at his official residence before the 2019 elections. The publication elicited widespread outrage and bipartisan demand for the former Ogun State governor to be arrested and prosecuted for illegal arms possession, which has long been identified as one of the immediate causes …

A few hours to the end of his reign as Ogun State helsman, embattled Governor Ibikunle Amosun contacted the state’s Commissioner of Police, Bashir Makama, confessing that he had thousands of arms and millions of ammunition in store at a secret armoury in Government House, and that he had decided to hand them over to the police. Mr Amosun’s anointed …

Almost five years after the expiration of the tenure of the last board of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the federal government yesterday reconstituted the board of the regulatory body for the country’s capital market. The commission has been without a board and is presently being run by an acting director general and acting executive commissioners, a situation, market …

•  Fixes July 8 for hearing The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal yesterday ordered President Muhammadu Buhari to respond within five days to the appeal filed against his qualification for the 2019 presidential election. Also to respond within same five days are the All Progressives Congress (APC), which nominated Buhari for the presidential poll and the Independent National …

The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate in the last general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his party are heading to the Supreme Court to challenge the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT), sitting in Abuja, which yesterday denied them access to the server and data of smart card reader the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) allegedly used …

...House swells to 11, appoints principal officers Two more members-elect of Edo State House of Assembly  were on Monday, inaugurated by the House Speaker, Rt. Hon. Frank Okiye, further depleting the 15-man Oshiomhole camp to 13. Presentation of themselves for the oath-taking ceremony was in apparent defiance of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, who …